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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1901
Page
5
A Philadelphia column surveys summer fabrics for morning wear from peasant linen to rich blues, plus florals in hats and dresses. It highlights tailored piques and linens, taffetas, foulards, and diaphanous gowns, with Paris influences and new draping techniques for festive and evening looks.
The piece highlights blue roses with gold centers, tints like c and mushroom white, and a mix of fabrics including batiste for gowns, tussore silks, and China silk with openwork. It emphasizes black white and blue combinations, light linen for lingerie, trimmed hats and parasols, lace work with gold spangles, and silk surahs for petticoats.
A fragment from a column notes that good listeners are as essential as good talkers. It asserts imagination as waking dreams and warns that a man who won’t reform before marriage may not reform afterward. An elevator boy in Philadelphia is quoted about a woman and a mirror.
The article surveys gender norms and customs abroad, noting taximeter cabs in St Petersburg charging women half fare, strict hiring rules for Cincinnati housemaids, feline stewards on ships, a floating Magellan post office, university marriage customs for Russian women, Chicago church services, Valparaiso women conductors, corset bans in Hungary, Shanghai and Shanghai's American Women’s Society, Japanese age customs for women, and dress buying by age for women in Japan.
A poetic meditation on love asserting a single verb transcendence beyond language. The text contrasts pot amo with almer and notes the violin, birds, sea, rose, moon, and eyes as embodiments of love beyond spoken words. It presents love as ineffable across languages and cultures.
A lyric fragment notes life as a journey and life’s music aiding travelers. It suggests pausing to listen to song while nature teems around, urging readers to ease life with melody and quiet moments.
Cook and preserve rhubarb in jelly, baked rhubarb with lemon and ginger, a tapioca pudding blend, and a marmalade. Recipes use gelatine, sugar, lemon juice, orange rind, almonds, and optional whipped cream for serving.
A bridegroom a year later can still recall and call out the givers of most of his wife's wedding presents. He used to use the table implements and dishes by the givers names, such as Aunt Maria Mary Churchill and Frank Jones, as noted by Good Housekeeping.
Sculptor Charles Brinton Cox formerly of Philadelphia now in New York married Florence Ada Farrel on Saturday June 1 at the bride’s Camden residence. They will reside after August 1 at Moore's in Delaware County. Mrs. D W Flagler invites guests to the private wedding reception of her daughter Elizabeth Flagler and Dr G W McKeen on June 12 at noon.
The New York Press describes Fort San Geronimo at San Juan as a Spanish fortress linked to San Cristobal and El Morro by ancient tunnels. Major Selden A. Day hosts guests who report midnight apparitions of a Spanish officer, while underground passages remain largely unexplored and marked by relics of a bygone defense system.
An orator argues about entering Kansas to spread lies while a Star resident suggests a subtle approach to gaining attention by pretending to seek work. The dialogue hints at public reaction and the dangers of deception in a community.
A jeweled watch stolen from an English officer in Tien Tsin reappears in Woodlawn Alabama. A Birmingham man, a former watchmaker, is alleged to have stolen three watches and fled. the recovered watch will be sent to Washington then to China for return.
The Chambers' Journal describes plasmon, a dried coagulated milk product produced after cream removal. It is ground into a hot water soluble powder and touted by German authorities as a portable nutrient, with one ounce equaling about three and a quarter pounds of beef or ten to twelve pints of milk in nourishment.
Walter Budds nine years old touched a high voltage cable at a Hartford utility tub while watching a circus parade. He was rescued after twenty minutes of artificial respiration and rushed to Hartford Hospital where doctors said he would recover. He suffered severe burns to both hands and lost the index finger of his left hand.
In Concordia Kansas a frail business college student stood up to a town bully twice. After the bully struck him the student retaliated with firm blows and knocked the attacker down. He was arrested and fined, but the town hails the student as a hero for his first fight.
An earnest citizen faults funding campaigns as immoral while Senator Sorghum defends spending large sums to win office. The dialogue centers on whether paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for political office is praiseworthy or opposed.
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